UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2012

Desert Hot Springs, CA, USA

Large, triangular shaped object with bright lights and no sound being chased by helicopters in Desert Hot Springs

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-11
Where
Desert Hot Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.962, -116.504 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-desert-hot-springs-ca-2012-feb96b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Desert Hot Springs, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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